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Momento
Company blog · gomomento.com/blogsystemsbusiness
Momento is the company blog at gomomento.com, writing about systems and business. Since 2022, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Fighting off faux-serverless bandits with the true definition of serverless”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Momento's site as an example of a serverless, cloud-hosted cache, mostly in threads about Redis licensing and serverless infrastructure. The comments do not discuss the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Run Valkey with a web-scale gateway, Kubernetes-native control, hardened runtime images, and production modules built for platform teams.
Most-linked posts?
- Fighting off faux-serverless bandits with the true definition of serverless3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-22
- RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-25
- Single table design for DynamoDB: The reality2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-25
- /blog/rip-redis-how-garantia-data-pulled-off-the-biggest-heist-in-open-source-history/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-02
What Hacker News says?
> Amazon / Google / Microsoft offer managed versions of the database and make bank on it. Easily millions in revenue. Original creator / company doesn't get anything, and the hyperscaler isn't obliged to pay. This isn't what is happening. A company called Garantia Data renamed themselves to Redis Labs and acquired the Redis trademark. They're not the original company, and they used a naming trick to present as if th…
Comment linking /blog/rip-redis-how-garantia-data-pulled-off-the-biggest-heist-in-open-source-history/
on “Redis is open source again”Submitted Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis as a story · 249 points
HN discussionMomento? This? https://www.gomomento.com/ Seems to be cloud hosted only.
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on “Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction”Submitted RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history as a story · 10 points
HN discussion> I'm shifting literally everything (except Redis) to serverless A new company called Momento just launched that offers a serverless cache. Might be of interest to you. https://www.gomomento.com
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on “Ask HN: Skeptical about my company going “full serverless”. What am I missing?”Submitted RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDaniela Miao and I founded Momento. We are passionate about our team and serverless. We are open to answer any questions you may have about our service. https://www.gomomento.com/blog/we-built-a-serverless-cache-y...
Comment linking /blog/we-built-a-serverless-cache-you-can-add-to-your-stack-before-lunch
on “Momento launches out of stealth with a serverless cache”Submitted Redis Still Chasing Valkey: 50M Sorted Sets, Round Three as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Elastic, Redis, Terraform, now MinIO. Redis is the odd one out here[1]: Garantia Data, later known as Redis Labs, now known as Redis, did not create Redis, nor did it maintain Redis for most of its rise to popularity (2009–2015) nor did it employ Redis’s creator and then-maintainer 'antirez at that time. (He objected; they hired him; some years later he left; then he returned. He is apparently OK with how things e…
Comment linking /blog/rip-redis-how-garantia-data-pulled-off-the-biggest-heist-in-open-source-history/
on “MinIO repository is no longer maintained”Submitted Single table design for DynamoDB: The reality as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Momento Cache is now accessible at the edge with Cloudflare as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crucial caching choices: Where, when, and how as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Momento's Series A and the General Availability of Topics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fighting off faux-serverless bandits with the true definition of serverless as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Single table design for DynamoDB: The reality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fighting off faux-serverless bandits with the true definition of serverless as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fighting off fake-serverless bandits with the true definition of serverless as a story · 1 points
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